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WIW?3 HOLD ME TIGHT. MAKE ME HAPPY by C. J. Martin

January 1, 2010 Contributed By: C. J. Martin

from WIW?3 HOLD ME TIGHT. MAKE ME HAPPY

Delete Press, 2009     

by C. J. Martin     

 

UNTITLED

midst that mossiness I on elm-tree from elm-tree aforesaid
Pictures of my sonic Manzano
Gone around, explicated pass, as material land grant

nearer 2 bulks of
3, of cottonwood treaty
In revulsion to you / suddenly-in-front-of

 

UNTITLED

They from labor elegance
A mock more immediate bitter knowledge or
burden of household autonomy gone out,
become almost real

Baptized to them too, but are drawn
attendant developing conversion
As all sensitive qualities claimed correspondence

Figure/ground,  margins of close on professional burden
ings & distendings of rational loves,
logical work loves, real infatuations

grown daring of interweaving forms
Whom I young firmament sea rose
behind where professional sea figures

Once heard beyond terms of your life
in work. Unlikely brother, grandmother,
silly counterpart projecting one-third

or second worked upon walls
One-in-ten psychologies/figures apprehend
contaminant—1st articulations

of here-too feeling & strove
predilection like this, like likeness
Becoming involved w/o lording over matter

in terrors before they even knew anything
Like oxen, like horses, now ‘book,’ divine old incorporated fancy

Bystanders will go away and say
(youths as yet, burdening sense):

Disorder against them, even in marriage.

 

UNTITLED

192/193
So-so the death so
image-sad Thinker is the think
From what books inclination

adds no body Not humorous
(obvious gesture perhaps)
Defense “creating” of agreement

Some, then never any, do

 

UNTITLED

67/70
We the really infant of
Renew that perfection (more
work) & still one

decreased or increased work
Barely describable
in work moments

As everything else going discipline
not these not defeated
in a lonely absolutely b/c

Being everyday plain,
mind grates everything

Return to table of contents for Issue 2 Winter 2010

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: January 1, 2010

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